Best Buy Shares Are Surging (BBY)

Thursday

Feb 27, 2014 at 9:02 AM

Steven Perlberg

Best Buy is up 8% in pre-market trading after reporting earnings this morning.

The electronics retailer said that the consumer environment remained weak, but the stock spiked when the company reported net earnings of $310 million ($0.88 a share) compared to a loss of $461 million ($1.36 a share) a year earlier.

From the press release: "From a revenue perspective, in light of overall economic concerns, we are assuming that the industry declines in the consumer electronics category that we saw in the fourth quarter will continue. As a result, it is reasonable to expect that total company revenue and comparable store sales will remain slightly negative similar to Q4 FY14 in the first half of the year."

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